Africa is the world's second largest continent, covering one-fifth of Earth's land area. It sits squarely on the Equator extending almost the same distance to the north and south. Apart from the narrow strip o continued ...

Folktales form a primary part of China's rich cultural and literary heritage. Like in every culture, Chinese folktales too have been instrumental in passing on Chinese tradition, beliefs, customs and values fr continued ...

Folk literature is perhaps the oldest of all literature, as it records stories handed down from generation to generation over centuries. Exposing children to folktales is a gentle way of introducing them to th continued ...

Japan, one of the world's most beautiful countries, has a rich literary heritage. Japanese stories reflect a deep sense of tradition and a great sensitivity to nature. For many centuries Japanese stories remai continued ...

India has a very rich cultural heritage. An integral part of this culture are the folktales - ancient stories which have been passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth. Folktales give us an ins continued ...

Nasruddin Hoodja lived centuries ago but the stories told about him have a timeless appeal. Some of them make you laugh, others make you think, and a few leave you totally per-pllexed, you don't know whether N continued ...

The Butterfingers stories revolve around the antics of Amar, the endearing 13 year old, nicknamed Butterfingers for his knack of dropping things with alarming regularity. He is not just butterfingered; he is continued ...

Tantri the Mantri, was the brainchild of Subba Rao, one of the editors of Tinkle in its early days. Subba Rao was an admirer of Rene Goscinny co-creator and writer of the famous comics series, Asterisk and th continued ...

Kalia, the Crow made its first appearance as a comic in Tinkle Number 1 in December 1980. When I first mooted the idea of a crow as the hero of a comics strip for Tinkle, some of my associates at India Book Ho continued ...

By 1983, Tinkle was a already on way to becoming India's most Popular children's magazine. One of it competitors was Target published by Living Media. Target was a narrative magazine but it also carried a few continued ...

Suppandi made his debut in Tinkle No.27 in January 1983. He was born out of a story sent by P.Varadarajan from Chennai. Varadarajan sent 3 stories in all in narrative form, and they were rendered into comics i continued ...

All the Suppandi stories in this book except the last (Suppandi the Spy) have been illustrated by the legendary Ram Waeerkar. Ram Waeerkar was one of the pioneers of Indian Comics. He contributed enormously to continued ...